‘What would CP Scott have made of the Guardian’s continuing equivocation,’ asks Nick Witney.
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In your editorial (24 December) you criticise Labour for “equivocation” over Brexit and, on the Titanic analogy, conclude that “to avoid a damaging crash, Labour needs soon to launch a lifeboat the country can get into”. If you have in mind here some clever ruse that no one else has thought of, do you not think that you should share it with the rest of us? Or if what you really mean is “Labour should come out in favour of a second referendum”, do you not think you should say so? What, one wonders, would CP Scott have made of the Guardian’s continuing equivocation on this vital issue, with shipwreck less than 100 days away?Nick WitneyPetersfield, Hampshire

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